Qualcomm announces the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, OpenAI gives Daybreak AI cyber defence system to Ukraine, and Microsoft files a patent that could potentially pause a game to play an ad.
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Qualcomm is making not one but two versions of its flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 chip
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme, able to handle AI tasks on device, built on a TSMC (2nm) 2-nanometer manufacturing process. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 has an eight-core Oryon CPU composed of two prime cores with clockspeeds of up to 5GHz, 16 MB of Flex Cache, and the Adreno GPU is 35% faster than last gen, and the NPU(neural processing unit) 14% faster. The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 Extreme’s GPU is 44% faster, 40% more efficient, and runs 30B-parameter AI models on-device, with 8K60fps video, a first for a phone.
Australia’s attorney-general told councils to ban smart glasses
Beginning October 12th, 2026, Western Australia is banning all smart glasses from public schools following a directive issued by the state’s education minister. The order specifically instructs principals to ensure staff and students do not wear, use, charge, or even store any smart glasses on the premises, like in a locker. Principals need to post a notice of the ban visible by all, and further ensure that parents, visitors, and contractors are aware of and follow the ban. Exemptions may be granted for “school approved medical, accessibility or assistive technology purposes”.
Source: The Next Web
OpenAI gives cyber defence tools to Ukraine
OpenAI will share Daybreak, its AI cyber defence system with Ukraine’s government, for free, in order to help the nation better defend civilian infrastructure, like hospitals and power plants against digital attacks. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine reported approximately 6,000 such attacks in 2025. The deal gives Ukraine access to OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 Sol model.
Source: BBC
UK competition watchdog wants to give Android and Chrome users more search engine choices
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) proposed Android smartphone and Chrome users be given the ability to select a preferred search engine at launch so Google isn’t used automatically. It also recommends a yearly prompt to users in case they want to change a selection over time. The CMA also wants to require search providers to give clearer attribution to publisher content when shown through AI assistance and summaries. These proposals are in line with measures recommended earlier in 2026. Europe already mandated smartphone makers give users a search engine and browser choice when first setting things up.
Source: Engadget
US Rebukes Australia for Plan to Target Social Media Algorithms
The US government criticized Australia’s proposed social media algorithm changes, which would give users options regarding the content shows on their feeds, specifying the US could view these impositions as “facilitating censorship.” When asked about this criticism, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese noted the measures are intended to restore individual’s content choices and not intended to grant the government sole authority over decision making. The “Digital Duty of Care” bill is expected to be introduced in parliament later in 2026.
Source: NBC News
LinkedIn Adds More Profile Verifications to Combat AI-Powered Job Scams
On Wednesday, LinkedIn announced new tools to better fight against fake accounts and identities used for scams. Users will be able to vouch for the experiences of colleagues and classmates in a system separate from the existing endorsement one. To make the system less easy to be gamed, the voucher must already have a verified profile, have two-factor authentication enabled, and be connected to the person for at least a year. Businesses will have new controls to manage who associates with their brand, allowing companies to remove accounts falsely claiming employment experience from appearing on their page, though this does not automatically alter the user’s profile, only making their work experience there no longer displaying as verified.
Source: CNET
Microsoft Wants To Show You Ads In Between Boss Fights
Microsoft filed a patent named “contextually aware management of interactive software application access” which described being able to pause a game at the OS level and display “audiovisual promoted content”, more colloquially referred to as ‘advertisements’. Watching the “audiovisual promoted content” would granted the user a credit that could be used to access the game for a limited amount of time, from 15 minutes to an hour. Filing for a patent does not guarantee the feature will be released in the near or any future, but this follows the announcement earlier in September that reduced the number of monthly hours available for Xbox Cloud Gaming for all Game Pass plans, with the Ultimate tier getting limited to 15 hours.
Source: IGN
Riot is pulling voice chat from League of Legends 26.20
And two weeks after Riot’s announcement that voice chat would be available to more than just pre-made teams in League of Legends, the dev team shared that the feature has been delayed. On X/twitter, the @LoLDev account said on Tuesday it “made the call to push it to meet the quality bar you deserve. No new target patch to share yet, but we’re making this a priority to get right.”
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